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It's taking me ages to clear my flash-drive backlog, with lots of long-forgotten items just resurfacing now from their obscure origins. Here are some low-budget cartoons I done around 2012 for a chicken-breeders' website [!] : again the payment was pretty modest but I deffo got paid for these suckers. Some of these have already been seen on a dodgy site I used to be a member of. Enjoi or forever rest your peace.....

Here is yet another  resurfaced paid-job design from 2012: I do not mind doing logo designs/shop front characters like this, as one of these images can often pay about the same as a whole page of colored comic-strip artwork for [what is left of] the UK comics market. I have plenty of time to do a nice job on these , loads of space to work in, and also I do not have to pander to the established style of a famous artist, an approach that has never really appealed to me. I would be quite happy to do this sort of thing all the time, it is great for coming up with my original designs. I done a fairly elaborate toyshop logo design for an American customer  just recently, which I aim to screen on here eventually.

TODAY'S ENTRY sees more digitally-altered material, illustrating just how often this aspect of manipulation is in use these days: the first drawing with the construction worker atop the steel girder shows how you can get reasonable results from a routine or unremarkable original sketch. The early rough was pretty basic, but after tinkering, shrinking and re-compositing, the end results can be much more effective. It is entirely possible to get a usable cartoon from a routine source, although clearly, decent ideas  in the first place will be always be  an advantage. Some of these examples seen below have already been seen elsewhere on the web, but here a 'loving color' version in hi-rez can be viddied for the first time. Also contains dramatic, as well as subtle, use of image scaling [the chicken illustrations] . The ability to rescale images is a great de-cluttering device that can open up more space which is more pleasing to the eye---the cartoonist also benefits from bein

Here I am adding further eggzamples of the low-budget cartoons I done for a construction company in 2012.....yes, this is essentially a 'hard-drive clean-out' job, and hardly represents my best work-------but this quicko 'toons are part and parcel of this business. Belted out very quickly indeed, this represents the bulk of the remainder: Although these are clearly modest examples of my drawing abilities, this assignment did lead to a more interesting 'repeat custom' job: see the full-color Christmas Lights comic strip I done for the same company----it is represented on here [the onee with the Christmas Elves]. That job was more like a BEANO assignment, with plenty of time to spend on glossier drawing, as it paid a good bit better. As I said earlier, there is no real point in spending a lot of time on modestly-paid toons. [Low Budget----better than NO budget, I reckon].

ALSO CULLED from my miniature hard-drive of early cartoon efforts uncovered on my flash-drive, here are some 'quickies' done around 2012, these were for a panphlet for a construction company, illustrating their safety practises. This assignment just came totally out of the blue but I took it; the bad news was: the payment was pretty meagre, meaning I only had the incentive to belt this material out very quickly, and that is how these should be assessed. Even D C Thomson paid pretty modestly at times---in 1986, I recieved a princely 7 pounds 50 for supplying similar-styled single toons to their DANDY CARTOON BOOK series. Believe it or not, these el-cheapo jobs are usually quite fun, because you do not get a lot of interference from the 'paymasters' who let you just get on with the drawing......these were just a highly-intensive blur, many done all at once, and most I cannot even recall drawing. The subject may seem less than promising at first glance, but I always say th

HERE WE SEE another example of unseen artwork [at least on here] dredged up from my distant archives of aroond 2 years or so back. I need to update the firmware on my blu-ray player [ isn't modern living so complicated?]  and so I have to clear the flash-drive: that is the main reason I have unearthed these works, some of these items I had virtually forgotten about: these are early digital efforts, and so they are obviously a bit rough around the edges---but I had to start somewhere. Ignoring the garish, overdone, lurid background color and clumsy compositing in the lettering, the look of this creation is pretty much my approach to cartoonery: this looks like something out of a cel animation short cartoon, just with more updated color. Includes mock-up of the image on a van I done for the customer: works like these seldom get shown at the time due to payments late in coming in, me not allowed to use the image in public until much later, etc etc...... More previously unseen paid wor